Tobacco-box



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Patented Aug. 11

WITNESSES JNVENTOR a mm? TTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, PMImLRMgnpMr. Wilhing'nn, D-C'.

UNITED STATE PA'IEN 1* OFFICE. v

ALBERT M. GUYTON, OF BROAD TOP, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOBACCO-BOX.

SRZCIECOAEION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,105, dated August11, 1885.

Application filed March 6, X885. (ModcLl T0 aZZ wh0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT MARION GUY- TON, of Broad Top city, in thecounty of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, have in vented a new andImproved Tobacco-Box, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, andefficient box or case wherein to hold atobacco-plug and a knife to cutit, so that the tobacco may be kept moist and clean, and need not bebitten off by the user of it.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement ofparts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figurel is a side elevation of my improved tobacco -box with its k nifepocket partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the box,withthe tobacco-plug and knife shown projected from the open top of the boxand Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of the box, taken on thirregularline at 00, Fig. 2.

Theletter A indicates the tobacco-box, which I make with the compartmentB, for holding the plug 0 of tobacco, and the compartment or pocket D,for holding the knife, E, to be used in cutting the tobacco plug intosuitable pieces or shavings for consumption by chewing or smoking it.

At the top of the box is fitted a cover, F, which is hinged to the boxat f, and has a suitable elastic catch, G,which presses against oppositeside plates of the box when the cover is closed to hold it shut.

Across the compartment B is fitted a slide, H, on which the plug 0 oftobacco rests, and which has a reduced end portion, which is adapted toslide in a slot, b, made through one side of the box A, and in thepocket D is fitted the slide I, on which the, point or end of the blade0 of knife E rests, and the slide has a reduced portion or neck, whichis adapted to move in a slot, d, made through the side of the pocket D.

The, slides H I have the attached knobs or buttons h 1', respectively,which may be pushed one way orthe other to move the slides both waysalong the box.

The operation is as follows: hen the tobacco is to be used, the knob hof the slide H will be pushed outward toward the cover F by the thumbofthe1efthand,in which the box is held, and as the tobacco-plug O isforced outward it will strike the boxcover F and swing it open, and theplug will be projected a suit-- able distance from the open end of thebox. The thumb now will be transferred to the knob z of slide I, to pushit forward or outward, to carry the handle of the knife E beyond the endof the box, when it may be re moved from the pocket D by the right handand used for cutting the tobacco, as may be required, and when thetobacco is cut the knife will again be placed in the pocket D and pushedin, which carries the slide I back again to the bottom of the box, andthe slide H will be moved back, to allow the tobacco O to re-enter thebox, and the cover F may then be swung over and closed.

As the knife-blade e is not pivoted. but is rigidly fixed to and in linewith the handle, the knife E is dangerous to carry uncovered in thepockets of clothing; hence the person using it to cut the tobacco willnaturally replace it in the pocket D of box A, where it belongs; and byproviding the knife with the box every necessary convenience is affordedfor cutting the tobacco, so that it need not be bitten off for use, asoften is done.

It is evident that my tobacco-box will be very useful to miners andothers working in quite dark dirty places, and whose hands become verydirty and gritty, as the boxslides H I may easily be operated by theirpush-knobs h z, the one 5 moving only asuflicient distance in the shortslot (1 to project the knife-handle sufficiently to take hold of it todraw it from the box; hence the knife will not be thrown from the boxonto the dirty ground or floor by the action of the slide. By movingslide H the end of the tobacco-plug may be projected sufficiently toallow a chew to be cut from it without handling the plug, and when inthe box the plugis kept moist and fresh and free from perspiration whencarried in the pocket.

through the slots 1) d, and forming push-knobs 10 h i,for operating thes1ides,ond a hinged cover,

F, closing both compartments B D, snbstnntially as herein set forth.

ALBERT M. GUYTON.

with a side slot, b, a compartment, D, for hold.- ing the knil'eE, andprovided with a slot, (1, slides H I, fitted, respectively, incompartments B I), and having neck portions passing Witnesses:

FELIX TOOLE, J AGO'B SHAFER.

